Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.391

Place of Origin:

St. Louis, MO

Date:

1920-1940

Description:

Medicine in original box, Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Company, St. Louis, MO. Rectangular white paperboard box, matchbox type, printed in black. Top: "DR. HERRICK'S / SUGAR COATED / PILLS. / PREPARED FOR / DR. HERRICK'S FAMILY MEDICINE CO. / JAMES F. BALLARD, Proprietor / ST. LOUIS, MO. U.S.A."; with oval image of Dr. Herrick. Right side: "L. R. Herrick M.D. / Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Co., / JAMES F. BALLARD, Proprietor / St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A." Left side: "Entered according to Act of Congress / In the Clerk's Office / For the Northern District of New York." Bottom: "DR. HERRICK'S SUGAR COATED PILLS / A Reliable Family Purgative / Recommended for biliousness, / indigestion, constipation. / This style wrapper adopted / May 1 1920 / To imitate this wrapper is forgery / Net Contents 30 Pills." Box contains white spherical pills and printed sheet with directions.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.75 W-1.2 L-2.2 inches

Provenance:

Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068.)

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Pills